Amazon Associates Program

Amazon Associates Program offers many benefits to Web site owners including the opportunity to generate revenue via their site, a wide range of relevant products to promote from Amazon’s huge selection, easy-to-use tools to create and customize the links that work best, detailed reports to help you better understand your visitors’ preferences and link performance, an association with Amazon.com, and the chance to interact with a broad community of other Web site owners.

you may participate in the Associates Program if you live outside the United States. Amazon have Associates from all over the world and are working hard to add even more. All you need to join is a Web site that does not violate intellectual property rights or promote sexually explicit materials, violence, illegal activities, or discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age. For those Associates who want to link to other Amazon sites, you can also join the Associates Programs on those sites.

They are separate programs from the Amazon.com program, and you must sign up on each individual site to participate. There is no charge to apply, and there is no minimum referral requirement or quota you must reach before earning referral fees with our program. You start earning right away. you may participate in the Associates Program through multiple Web sites. If you want to track the performance of each Web site separately, You can then use each tracking ID to measure the performance of a different site, promotional strategy, or layout. An Associates ID is assigned when you sign up through our online form.

Links from Associates Web sites to Amazon use a special format that includes this code. Every time a customer follows one of those links to our site, this unique URL tells us which page to display as well as which Associate sent the customer to us. Amazon keep track of the Associates ID as the customer browses through the Web site, and even if they close their browser and come back later that day.

Gobi Manchurian

INGREDIENTS:

• 1 medium cauliflower clean and broken into big florettes.
• 1 small bunch spring onoin finely chopped
• 2 tsp ginger finely chopped
• 1 tsp garlic finely chopped
• 1/4 cup plain flour
• 3 tbsp cornflour
• 1/4 tsp red chilly powder
• 2 red chillies(dry)
• 3 tbsp oil
• 1 1/2 cups water
• 1 tbsp milk

METHOD:

• Boil the florettes for 3-4 minutes in plenty of water, to which a tbsp of milk has been added.
• Drain and pat dry on a clean cloth.

• Make thin batter out of flour and 2 tbsp cornflour, adding 1/4 tsp each of ginger and garlic and red chilli powder and salt to taste.

• Dip the florettes in the batter one by one and deep fry in hot oil. Keep aside.

• In the remaining oil, add remaining ginger, garlic and crushed red chilli and fry for a minute.

• Add the salt and spring onions.

• Stir fry for a minute. Add 1 1/2 cups water and bring to a boil.

• Add 1 tbsp cornflour to 1/4 cup water and dissolve well.

• Gradually add to the gravy and stir continuously till it resumes boiling.

• Boil till the gravy becomes transparent. Add florettes and soya sauce.

• Boil for two more minutes and remove.

• Serve hot with noodles or rice.

Variations:

• Dry manchurian can be made by omitting the gravy.

• Make florettes as above and instead of adding water as above, add fried florettes, spring onions and soya sauce at this stage.

• Sprinkle 1 tsp. cornflour on the florettes and stir fry for 2 minutes.

• Serve piping hot with toothpicks or mini forks and chilly garlic sauce or tomato sauce.

• Same procedure for veg. Manchurian (with gravy or dry), but instead of using only cauliflower, use finely chopped minced vegetables and bind with some cornflour or bread crumbs and make small lumps the size of a ping pong ball.Fry and proceed as above.

Aloo Palak

Ingredients

• 3 cups chopped spinach
• 2 large onions chopped fine
• 2 large potatoes boiled and peeled
• 1 tomato grated
• 2 green chillies
• 1″ piece ginger
• 1 tsp. lemon juice
• 1/2 tsp. wheat or other flour
• 1 tsp. red chilly powder
• 1 tsp. cinnamon-clove powder
• 1/4 tsp. turmeric powder
• 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
• 2 pinches asafoetida
• 1/2 tsp. garam masala
• 1/2 tbsp. butter
• 4 tbsp. ghee
• salt to taste

METHOD:

• Put the washed spinach in a pan, add very little water (just a sprinkle) and a pinch of salt.
• Cover and boil over a high flame for 2 minutes. Cool quickly, or hold under running water in a colander.
• Put in a mixie, add green chilly and run for a minute. Keep slightly coarse, do not make very smooth.
• Keep aside.
• Cut the potatoes into big pieces. Heat ghee and fry potatoes till light brown.
• Drain the potatoes, keep aside.
• In the same hot ghee add the cumin seeds.
• Add the ginger, onions and fry till very tender.
• Add the tomato and further fry for two minutes.
• Add all the dry masalas and fry till ghee separates.
• Add spinach and potatoes.
• When it resumes a boil sprinkle the flour and stir well. Boil for 2-3 minutes. Add lemon juice
• Just before serving heat butter in a tiny saucepan and add the asafoetida.
• Pour over the vegetable and mix gently.
• Serve hot with naan or parathas or even rice.

Note: You may use boiled peas, boiled corn kernels or paneer chunks in the above dish, instead of potatoes.

Bidvertiser

Bidvertiser
Everyone who owns blog or website can make money online by simply  displaying the BidVertiser ads on website. The program is free and BidVertiser pays you for valid clicks on the ads on your site. You simply paste an HTML code into your web pages and ads will instantly start appearing.

Advertisers will bid against each other for your ad space. To get started, all you have to do is to complete and submit the Publishers Program sign-up form. Click here to sign up. You can place as many or as few ads on each page as you would like. However, do not put too many ads on your site as this will result in driving visitors away from your site. Bidvertiser supports 5 groups of ads: Banners, Buttons, Inline Ads, Skyscrapers and Free Design. All ads are fully customizable to fit the site’s look & feel.

Earn money by directing users to sign up with Bidvertiser
Place a Referral button or a text link on your site and you will start to earn money when a user clicks on your button or link and signs as an advertiser or a publisher: When a user signs as an advertiser and first spends $10, Bidvertiser will credit your account with $5. When that same advertiser spends $50, you will be credited with an additional $20. When a user signs as a publisher and first earns $10, Bidvertiser will credit your account with $10. When that same publisher earns $50, you will be credited with an additional $40. Your earnings will be tracked in your Referral control panel, including clicks, sign-ups and conversions. They pay monthly, either by check or instantly through PayPal with a minimum of only $10.

Free Softwares

Adobe Reader

View, print, and search PDF files via a redesigned interface. Secure your documents and collaborate via online and real-time meetings.Click here to download

Mozilla Firefox with Google Toolbar

Browse the web quickly and securely, switch between pages quickly with tabbed browsing. Click here to download

GIMP

GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. Click here to download.

Itunes

New Genius features and better ways to browse put music at the center of your entertainment world. Click here to download

Skype

Make free voice and video calls to anyone else on Skype. Call landlines and mobile phones at pretty low rates. Click here to download

Open office

Open Office is the leading open-source office software suite  for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. Click here to download

Thunderbird

Mozilla’s Thunderbird email application is more powerful than ever. It’s now even easier to organize, secure and customize your mail. Click here to download

Ubuntu

Ubuntu is a community developed, Linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains all the applications you need - a web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging and much more. Click here to download

Winamp

Winamp play and organize a variety of audio and video files. Click here to download

Ajax Windows

Ajax Windows is a virtual operating system that lets you store, edit and share your files using only a browser. Click here to download

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Tips to convert video,audio,picture formats to others.

Many of us struggle to convert different favorite videos or audios in different formats and search for best converters by wasting time. This problem can be solved by a tool called FormatFactory.

It is a freeware & multifunctional media converter provides functions below:

• All to MP4/3GP/MPG/AVI/WMV/FLV/SWF.
• All to MP3//WMA/MMF/AMR/OGG/M4A/WAV.
• All to JPG/BMP/PNG/TIF/ICO/….
• Rip DVD to video file.
• MP4 files support iPod/iPhone/PSP/BlackBerry format.
• Source files support RMVB.
  

Format Factory’s Feature:

• Support converting all popular video,audio,picture formats to others.
• Repair damaged video and audio file.Reducing Multimedia file size.
• Support iphone,ipod multimedia file formats.
• Picture converting supports Zoom,Rotate/Flip,tags.
• DVD Ripper.
• Supports 30 languages

Tips to import Bookmark from one browser to other browser

It is easy to import bookmark from one browser to other browser. Most of us come across this option while using our favorite browser but for somewhat reason we don’t give more importance to this option and we burden ourselves by bookmarking again on the different browser by waste of time. In order to save time and work, here I mention the importing bookmark method for Mozilla Firefox & Microsoft Explorer browsers.

Switch from Microsoft Explorer to Mozilla Firefox,

• With the Firefox browser window open, click “File”

• In the submenu, click “Import”

• Import wizard window will open and follow the prompts

Switch from Firefox to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer(the process is similar)

• Click “File” and then select “Import and Export

• An Import/Export Wizard will pop up

• Follow the prompts.  You will have an option to import your bookmarks from a file stored on your computer or from another browser.

Tips to get a Google Page rank 6 Link at a free of cost

It is easy to get a Google page rank 5 or 6 without spending money. This is a link exchange program to promote website which is provided by U.S. Immigration Support. It will place a link to the website on its Resources Page (Page Rank 6), in exchange the website must place a link to “US Immigration Support” . This helps increases the number of links to your website & increase the number of visitors.

USCIS
The USCIS, or the United States Citizen and Immigration Service, is a department within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The USCIS was created by the Homeland Security Act of 2002. The USCIS consists of approximately 15,000 employees and 250 field offices around the world.

You just need to write the above information in your website. Then submit your site. Just go to this link: http://www.usimmigrationsupport.org/linkexchange.html?gclid=CLbGhOb-kpUCFQO2FQodFBzUHA. It will give you the html code to insert into your website, and a place to submit your site to them. After checking your link they will then add your link to their website with a google page rank of 6, which is quite high. This is an easy and free way to help increase your page rank, which in turn should increase your traffic.

Tips to play You Tube videos in PowerPoint presentation

It is easy to play You Tube videos ( FLV format or MP4) in power point presentation with the help of a handy free application called Any-Video-Converter. This program not only just download the video also will convert it in a way that will make playable right in your presentation. The following points will walk you through the steps of doing just that.

Find the video of your choice in You Tube videos site. Copy the url in the address bar.

Open Any-Video-Converter and select the YouTube Video icon.

Paste the url of the video into the box that appears. Click OK when finished.

After clicking ok, the video name and other details will appear in the main window. Right click on it, and select download FLV. A status bar will appear showing the progress of the download. This will download the video, but keep in mind that it is still in a format that will not play in PowerPoint.

After video has finished downloading, select WMV from the drop down box on the top right of the program window.

Hit the encode button. This will convert your video to a WMV file that can be used in PowerPoint.

When this process has finished, you can find the resulting WMV file in a folder in your My Documents folder. to find it go to My Documents>AnyVideoConverter>WMV.

Open your PowerPoint presentation and go to the page where you wish to play the video. In Office 2007, you will hit the Insert tab, and then select Video From File. Use the box to find the file in the location given above. It will ask you whether you want to play the video automatically or upon being clicked. The video will be inserted on the slide where it can be stretched or placed where you want it.

Once placed on the slide, the video is free to be played anywhere, even if YouTube is blocked.

What is a blog?

I have many readers who are asking whats is a blog? So I wanted them to learn about blogging and that’s why this post. And this is a guest post by Loganathan who is author of www.tamilblog.in.

Blog is a website and where you can publish or write your ideas, views, articles about anything. This will be stored in a web server as like other websites and this can be accessed by anyone in the world.

Now you have a question, how it is differs from other website.

• content is published regularly
• readers of the blog can comment on the post/content
• Users can get update via RSS feeds

There are people those who have good writing skills, but they don’t have opportunity to write in media, those people can use blog as their media.

Blog is a media? Yes its a media and with help of this you can reach many people and readers, through social networks and social bookmarking you can increase the number of readers.

How much I have to spent to start a Blog?.. Its completely free, there are many sites which allows you to create blog like www.blogger.com, www.wordpress.com, www.tumblr.com. Also there you will get complete support to run a blog over there.

Do I need website development skills? No.. The above mentioned site will do all the designing and development works for you, if you want to modify it you may need some basic HTML, CSS and PHP knowledge.

Then whats up, start a blog and enjoy writing.